NetEase Is Very Ambitious and Gives Top Priority to Quality and Creativity, According to Suda and Nagoshi

wccftech.com:

It's no secret NetEase Games is among the biggest investors in the gaming industry, trailing only the likes of Tencent and perhaps Microsoft if you count their many acquisitions.

Over the last few years, it has acquired Quantic Dream and SkyBox Labs while opening several Western-based studios like NetEase Games Montreal, Jackalope Games (later renamed Jackalyptic Games), Jar of Sparks, Rebel Wolves (this one isn't fully owned, but NetEase provided the investment for their first project), Anchor Point Studios, Bad Brain Game Studios, and T-Minus Zero Entertainment to name a few.

However, NetEase has also invested in Japan by acquiring Suda's Grasshopper Manufacture and establishing Nagoshi Studio when the Yakuza creator left SEGA. VideoGamesChronicle recently had the opportunity to visit both studios in Tokyo to check how they're doing under the new ownership.

Nagoshi-san said that NetEase is very ambitious:

The general environment means it’s hard to try new things in Japan, but NetEase is very ambitious and wants to expand its business by succeeding worldwide and including the console game category, which aligns with our ambition. So when we started our conversations, we aligned our goals and the destination we were aiming towards. We were pretty much aligned in the first place, and later on, when we actually had meetings with each other, we just made sure we were heading toward this goal we had set before.

For his part, Suda-san highlighted that NetEase is focused on quality and creativity instead of putting a rush on game development.

We do have a schedule and a budget and everything, but it’s not like anyone’s saying, ‘OK, the game has to be out on this day’. There’s nobody at NetEase who thinks that if you get a game